Cute goats and chicken watering business update
Thanks for all the nice
comments on our recent homesteading videos.
One of our goals for 2016 is
to reach out to more people through
Youtube by making good short videos on more of the things we do around
here.
Why are we adding more videos
to the blog? The main reason is that the
chicken watering business
has slowed down to a trickle which means it's
time to create a new revenue stream or go back to substitute teaching.
What can you do to help? Keep
reading the blog, tell a friend,
subscribe to our Youtube
channel, click the thumbs up button if you
like the video. Suggestions are welcome from any of you readers that
use Youtube to supplement your income.
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Hi Anna and Mark and all,
I have been reading and re-reading Dr. Wrench's 'Restoring the peasantry' book/treatise on journeytoforever.org recently.
My BIG question seems to be basically the same one as yours? How do I produce the $$ to keep things going? And I read all that you and Mark write wondering what I might do the help, what I might do, etc.
Dr. Wrench's remarks have a lot to do with the problems of asking farmer's to pay in currency rather than produce.
All that said, I have yet to find a real suggestion for myself except get back to doing what I used to do and do it as well as I can. [ I was 'manufacturing' electronics. ]
The world has changed a LOT. But chasing the nickels seems to be the way to success for me at least right now.
Now that you have the video thing going, why not expand the youtube idea by doing some instructive videos, to be either downloaded for a fee, or actual hard copy dvd's produced for sale. Youtube videos could be teasers, or excerpts, of a full length instructive. You have so much knowledge of numerous gardening topics...as in your books, but videos are so great for those of us who are visual learners. I would pay to watch demos of things like grafting, or pruning, or seed saving, or pond building, or goat milking!
Another possibility would be webinars, though the logistics of that might be more difficult.